Angry Employee Deletes All of Company’s Data
Call it a tale of revenge gone wrong.
When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss’s phone number listed — she assumed she was about to be fired.
So, police say, she went to the architectural office where she works late Sunday night and erased 7 years’ worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5 million.
“She decided to mess up everything for everybody,” Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office spokesman Ken Jefferson told reporters. “She just sabotaged the entire business, thinking she was going to get axed.”
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Corra is reminded of the old cliche about one bad apple running the barrel, or whatever. Well, it can be true, as evidenced her when one employee became overzealous and deleted valuable proprietary data files.
When Corra reads this, we have to wonder if this person had…er…difficulties prior to employment, and if they company that hired her ever did a background check. Increasingly, more businesses are getting wise and checking out their job candidate’s before hiring them. It’s a smart practice and probably the best way to avoid incidents as the one experienced at this company.
Nothing is a guarantee, but a preemployment screening program can best determine the history of a job candidate and help identify troubling situations that may arise on the job. Such troubling situations can cause a lot of problems on the workforce and lead to embarrassing publicity, such as the type we witness here.
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